of little falls



NITE SES FFICQ JNO. KING, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW' YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, WILLIAM HIGBIE, HENRY LINK, AND GEORGE R. COMSTOCK, ALL OF SAME PLAGE.

QUILTING-FRAIVIE.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 20,764, dated June 29, 1858.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KING, of the town of Little Falls, Herkimer county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Quilting-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the follow-ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification, and in which- Figure l represents a plan of the quilting frame with portions of the quilt lining and quilt cover on the frame; Fig. 9. an outside end elevation; Fig. 3 an inside end elevation or cross section; and Fig. 4 a front side elevation.

In the accompanying drawing, M and N represent two end boards or pieces at a suitable distance apart and supported by legs, l (l.

R is a tie bar or board uniting the two end frames by tting through a slot in either end piece and being secured thereto by set screws, f, to admit of the end frames being brought nearer together or arranged farther apart, and serving to hold them when so adjusted.

C and G are two shafts or rollers arranged parallel to each other, at aY suitable width apart and turning in bearings at either end in the two end pieces M and N. H is a third roller also working in the end pieces M and N, and arranged parallel to the other two rollers, a little back of the one roller Gr and a little higher than it. All these shafts orrollers are provided with an angular termination, D, P or S, for a handle 7e to operate either roller as required; and said rollers have their bearings in the end pieces M and N, so arranged as to admit of the end frames being adjusted toward or from each other as already described.

Ratchet wheels, fn, n, are provided the two main rollers C and Cr, at their one end, and

- pawls or catches, m m, attached to the end frames, so as to drop into the ratchets and hold the rollers in a fixed position when required or which may be thrown back against stops, z' z', when not required to perform such office. The back upper shaft, H, is furnished with tenter hooks, fr to hold the quilt covering, O. The Inain rollers, C and G, have selvage, E and F, nailed on to them, and to which the quilt lining may be stitched. A Weight, I, suspended by a cord J and held by a hook L, may be provided the main rollers, G and G, to hold the quilt lining steady; and another weight, T, andv cord U, with hook r, be furnished the upper back roller,

H, to give the quilt lining and covering a uniform tension.

lV are tenter hooks on the inside of the end pieces M and N, to strain the quilt, if desired, in a direction at right angles to the shafts, C, G and H.

To use the frame, attach the quilt lining A (say) to the selvages on the shafts C and Gr, and roll the lining on to the one shaft, C, till stretched. Then spread the cotton on to the stretched lining between the shafts C and G. Afterward, attach one edge of the quilt covering, O, to the selvage on the shaft, G, and secure the other edge of the covering, by the tenter hooks m ai, to the upper back roller, H, on which roll the covering. Now, turn the shaft, G, by the crank, 7c, and the lining, cotton or padding, and covering will be conveyed to and rolled upon said shaft, additional cotton being supplied (say) each newly exposed breadth of lining between the shafts C and Cr, as the one shaft G takes Y up lining, cotton and covering, and the other shaft, C, lets out lining. This being done, unhook the covering, O, from the upper back roller, H, and attach it to the selvage on the shaft, C; when the quilt is ready to be wor-kerl, and, as the work progresses, fresh work may be let out by slacking it off the roller G, and the finished Work be taken up by winding it on the shaft C.

The pendant weights, before described, attached to the rollers, serve to equalize and regulate the tension of the lining and covering. The pawls to the ratchet wheels of the two shafts, C and Gr, form fixed or positive stops removable at pleasure; and the hooks lV on the end frames serve to catch the edges of the quilt lining and covering and to give the quilt the required tension in directions at right angles to the several rollers, the connecting bar, R, by its adjustable connection to the end frames, as described, admitting of the end frames being extended to pull lengthwise of the shafts on the quilt.

Thus, it will be seen, the combination and arrangement of devices is something more than mere cloth rollers and tension appliances; that great convenience, exactness and uniformity of tension to both lining and covering is insured, in quilting; also that the cotton or padding-being laid on or spread out during Work7 by the shaft Gr, must be,

H, and connecting bar R, operating substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name before two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN KING.

Vitnesses DELos HIGBIE, ASA CARTER. 

